| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 12046 | |
| Title: | TERRACOTTA FIGURINE: COMIC ACTOR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 12046 | |
| Description: | Figurine of draped, standing, female, comic actor. Figure stands with head slightly tilted to left. Bent left arm clutches himation close against body. Bent right arm, concealed under himation, extends outwards and pulls himation up to conceal lower half of face. Straight legs, feet shoulder width apart. Some hair from under himation, pulled over head, fairly level brows, thin nose, mouth concealed by himation. Distended belly and large oval vent hole in center of back. Wears long chiton under himation draped over top of head and pulled in front of face. Low, rectangular base, open at bottom. Hollow. Mouldmade with evidence of tooling on back. Similar to MF-14193 (Merker 2000, Corinth 18.4, cat. H361). Also similar to New York 13.225.23, Heidelberg TK 45, London 1907.5-18.7, Thessaloniki Olynthos inv. 501, Louvre N 4864, Athens 16052 (P-406), Athens 4729 (P-1150), Saint Petersburg BB 166, Berlin Museum fur Volkerkunde, Athens 13016 (1422), Thasos 954, Valencia Museo de Prehistoria, Madrid 3393. Mask V (MMC 3rd ed.). | |
| Material: | Fine brownish yellow clay with very rare medium spherical sub-rounded brown inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 6/6 (brownish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Completely intact, somwhat worn, white accretion in crevices. | |
| Manufacture: | F08 F MM | |
| Period: | 4th c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | based on style | |
| Area: | Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore | |
| Context: | NB282 B3 P104 | |
| NB282 B3 P104, LOT 2249 | ||
| LOT 2249 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 37.3, p. 323, pl. 95b; Merker 2000, Corinth 15.4, cat. H360 | |
| Site: | Acrocorinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Merker, Corinth 18:4, 2000 Monument: Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore Basket: NB282 B3 P104 |